New: Bounty Hunting
- Added sheriff offices to wilderness towns.
- Added Sheriff and Deputy NPC jobs.
- Added weekly bounty boards.
- Bounty boards generate 5 offers per town/week.
- Players can accept up to 3 active bounties at once.
- Active bounties persist until completed or claimed.
- Added bounty target coordinates.
- Accepted bounty locations appear on the overworld map with a red
!. - Added wilderness bounty targets that spawn in the listed chunk.
- Added bounty combat integration with the tactical combat system.
- Added bounty turn-in rewards.
- Added an Adventure > Bounties dashboard showing active bounty status, targets, rewards, and coordinates.
Town and NPC Updates
- Improved generated town support for sheriff offices and public-safety buildings.
- Improved player-founded town support for sheriff offices and public-safety buildings.
- Added public safety job profiles for procedural NPCs.
- Improved procedural town population handling so adding sheriff offices preserves residential variety.
- Improved civic exterior marker placement for more varied town layouts.
Building Editor and Custom Building Templates
- Added/expanded custom building template support.
- Added zone metadata for custom buildings.
- Added support for bedroom, kitchen, shopping counter, dining, office, and similar functional zones.
- Zones now remain metadata-only and no longer automatically fill rooms with furniture.
- Added per-tile color metadata for custom buildings.
- Added NPC spawn anchors.
- Added support for open/closed room door symbols.
- Added multi-floor custom building template support.
- Custom building templates can now influence procedural town interiors.
- Custom inn bedroom zones now affect inn capacity, helping avoid overcrowded inn rooms.
Procedural Town Interior Improvements
- Procedural town interiors now better respect custom building templates.
- Custom colors can appear in generated interiors.
- Custom spawn anchors can guide resident placement.
- Closed room doors can be opened and closed.
- Interior passability was updated for new door behavior.
- Generated residents can use zone anchors for more sensible placement and routines.
Wilderness Town Fixes and Polish
- Fixed general-store and enterable building exteriors not always being filled with proper borders.
- Enterable procedural town buildings now draw clearer exterior walls and filled interiors.
- Open-air town features no longer behave like fake buildings with fake doors.
- Old/stale procedural town layouts can refresh to the newer runtime layout.
- Fixed cases where leftover or stale door/building tiles could remain on refreshed wilderness chunks.
- Improved town layout variety and runtime refresh behavior.
Performance Improvements
- Improved wilderness town inspect/look cursor behavior.
- The look cursor no longer hard-clears/redraws the whole terminal every cursor step.
- Improved procedural town rendering lookups.
- Reduced repeated work while drawing procedural-town interiors.
Clock/Pacing
- Added configurable clock speed support.
- New/migrated saves default to
Brisk. - The brisk clock makes in-game time advance faster so NPCs leave early-morning routines sooner.
Follower Job Save Handling
- Improved save/load handling for travel follower work state.
- Follower work state now preserves valid task XP and work totals.
- Invalid or duplicate follower work/memory data is cleaned during load.
Save/Data Safety
- Added bounty-board save fields.
- Added active bounty save fields.
- Added completed bounty log save fields.
- Added sanitization for bounty offer status, rewards, defeated state, and completed bounty records.
- Added migration-safe defaults for new bounty data.
Release / Repository Updates
- Updated version number to
0.9.0-beta.2. - Added root
LICENSE. - Updated README source-path guidance.
- Added clearer GitHub Releases download guidance.
- Added source self-check instructions.
- Enabled GitHub Actions tests.
- Stabilized the smoke-test temp path in CI.
- Updated changelog with the beta.2 release notes.
- Published a new Windows ZIP and matching SHA-256 file.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bounty target spawning recursively conflicting with wilderness animal placement.
- Fixed civic exterior marker placement issues in more varied procedural towns.
- Fixed procedural town cache refresh issues for older generated layouts.
- Fixed wilderness town look cursor stutter caused by excessive redraws.
- Fixed custom building zones auto-filling with furniture when they should only designate function.
- Fixed/cleaned follower job state loading for malformed or duplicate saved data.
Figure 3: An image of the player in the starting town.